Recent stories by Michael Harthorne

A three-month effort on the part of the Seattle Police Department to clean up the area around 12th Avenue and South Jackson Street in the International District netted drugs, cash and the arrest of 25 people, including one woman in connection with the midnight sale of $1,000 of ill-gotten frozen shrimp.

A drunk 19-year-old and a friend broke into his neighbors' home and stole all their furniture in order to furnish his new apartment, according to charges filed Wednesday in Pierce County Superior Court. However, he was reportedly nice enough to leave the victims some of his old furniture, as well as a traffic citation with his name and address on it.

Two brothers you'd apparently be lucky to have as your neighbors are being credited with chasing down and apprehending two men reportedly caught burglarizing a house across the street from them Tuesday afternoon in Tacoma.

A Wallingford resident was scraping ice off her windshield Saturday afternoon when she was stabbed in the back by a complete stranger for no apparent reason, according to the Seattle Police Department.

A woman was raped and held against her will in her own bedroom for hours by a jealous fellow soldier Saturday in a Lakewood apartment building, according to charges filed Monday in Pierce County Superior Court.

After initially blaming his actions on racist grocery store employees, a man who stole a $200 juicer while wielding a pair of scissors told officers he must have been sleepwalking during the incident, according to the Seattle Police Department.

A 19-year-old man wanted on a Department of Corrections warrant was arrested early Monday morning after stealing a pistol out of a truck parked in Lower Queen Anne, according to the Seattle Police Department.

A 25-year-old man upset to learn he had been arrested for residential burglary blamed his taxi driver for taking him to the wrong home, according to charges filed Tuesday in Pierce County Superior Court.

A pair of armed robbers were apologetic upon learning a worker doing manual labor outside a Seattle home Friday afternoon wasn't lying when she told them she didn't have anything worth stealing, according to the Seattle Police Department.

A couple of shoplifters returned to the store seconds after pepper spraying an employee to ask him to return their house keys, which he had grabbed during the attack, according to the Seattle Police Department. It turns out, they didn't like someone taking their stuff without permission.

Thanks to an internal miscommunication, a former employee was able to use his ID badge to steal more than $100,000 worth of electronics from St. Joseph Hospital and other Franciscan Health System locations over the span of three months, according to charges filed Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court.

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When I saw this dramatic cloud to the north, it reminded me of smoke, rising in billows until it hits the jet stream, then it's pulled hundreds of miles east. I had to capture it quickly. Within minutes the effect had faded.

For my girlfriends birthday we had a party at her parents. We knew the nest was there but the owner hadn't seen or heard the osprey for a day or two. He asked me to fly my drone up and see if any was wrong. I flew up and found that there were two eggs inside.